Coaching Run-And-Shoot Football

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Summary: The Book Mouse Davis Never Wrote
Review: This is the source -- the only text available to most coaches that lays out the (still-)revolutionary Mouse Davis Run and Shoot offense. Since Coach Davis never got around to writing such a book, we should be very glad that Al Black decided to do so.

It's all here -- the pass route packages like Slide, Go, Smash, Switch and Choice, plus the supplemental running game to the single back, and various screens, draws and shovel passes. Coach Black adds his expertise to one of the two major variants of the Run and Shoot still being played with great success -- the Spread Option Run and Shoot -- in the form of some truly devastating play-action passes off of the powerful inside veer fake to the single back.

(The other modern Run and Shoot variation that's achieving success at the high school and college level is the Triple Shoot offense, which combines the Run and Shoot route packages with the fly/jet/speed sweep series, maintaining the Davis philosophy of complexity through simplicity. Coach Black's book does not cover this variation, however.)

It is possible to set up a functioning R&S offense using Coach Black's book alone -- I know several coaches who have done so with great success.

Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: The Book Mouse Davis Never Wrote
Review: This is the source -- the only text available to most coaches that lays out the (still-)revolutionary Mouse Davis Run and Shoot offense. Since Coach Davis never got around to writing such a book, we should be very glad that Al Black decided to do so.

It's all here -- the pass route packages like Slide, Go, Smash, Switch and Choice, plus the supplemental running game to the single back, and various screens, draws and shovel passes. Coach Black adds his expertise to one of the two major variants of the Run and Shoot still being played with great success -- the Spread Option Run and Shoot -- in the form of some truly devastating play-action passes off of the powerful inside veer fake to the single back.

(The other modern Run and Shoot variation that's achieving success at the high school and college level is the Triple Shoot offense, which combines the Run and Shoot route packages with the fly/jet/speed sweep series, maintaining the Davis philosophy of complexity through simplicity.)

It is possible to set up a functioning R&S offense using Coach Black's book alone -- I know several coaches who have done so with great success.

Highly recommended.

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Summary: The secrets revealed...
Review: Tiger Ellison. Mouse Davis. June Jones. John Jenkins.

These are names we have associated with the Run and Shoot. Love them or hate them, these guys have been a part of the revolution. The Shoot is explained in detail in Coach Black's book. The key to making this offense work is the adjustments and reads made at the line before the snap and after the snap. Coach Black pays special attention to these adjustments and the QB and receiver techniques involved.